INTRANET SECURITY DEEMED UNSAFE

CIVILIANS BUCKING CHANGE AT NSA 

National Security Agency insiders say the organization's new director, Lt.-Gen. Michael Hayden, who took up his job in March, has

FRESH APPROACH TO ENCRYPTION 

The hand of the U.S. Justice Department and Pentagon in shaping American policy on cryptography became ever-more evident when the

TAPPING INTO THE WEB 

The Home Office department that deals with organized crime recently published a consultative paper called 'Interception of Communications in the

ENCRYPTION EXPORTS TO BE LIBERALIZED? 

The President's Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption (PECSENC) met in

NEW HOME FOR GCHQ 

Cheltenham borough council has approved final details for a new center for Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Designed by the

WORLD-WIDE INTERNET SECURITY SCHEME 

Washington is intent on creating a massive domestic and international Internet monitoring system, according to Intelligence Newsletter sources close to

NSA VOICES FEARS IN CRYPTOGRAPHY 

Speaking before a House judiciary sub-committee on March 4, NSA

HOW THE NSA "WEAKENS" ALGORITHMS 

In the latest of his electronic Crypto Gram publications dated Feb. 15, cryptography expert Bruce Schneier, head of the Minneapolis-based

THE DRIVE FOR AGILE INTELLIGENCE 

The recent publication of the book "Top Secret Intranet" (Prentice Hall, NJ., ISBN 0-13-080898-9) by a former top-level NSA official,

RED BOX EXPERIMENT A FLOP 

The "electronic red box" which the British government introduced last year has been scrapped because ministers couldn't operate the prototype.

NSA'S POST-COLD WAR PROFILE 

Significant new details on how the National Security Agency is organized in the post-Cold War era have emerged from new

ANNUAL RSA CONFERENCE 

For the first time, the 1999 version of the renowned

LOOKING FOR LOST CODES 

Britain's Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) appears highly intrigued by the

ENCRYPTION WITH A "PRIVATE DOORBELL" 

Thirteen U.S. computer companies announced on July 13 that they had made a new "breakthrough" on the encryption export front.

SCSSI TO BE BEEFED UP? 

The French government is thinking of considerably beefing up the Service Central pour la Securite des Systemes d'Information (SCSSI) to

THE THREATS AND TRANSPARENCY GAME 

In a hearing before a Senate panel on June 24, CIA director George Tenet and NSA boss Lt.-Gen. Kenneth Minihan

NSA PUSHES ISRAELI COMPUTER PRODUCT 

The National Security Agency, which prides itself on ensuring the use of American-made chips and printed circuit boards for its

ON-LINE SECURITY TESTED 

A team of specialized computer hackers from MI5, GCHQ and the Ministry of Defence's Signals Corp that was set up

MERGER MANIA IN ENCRYPTION TRADE 

Experts are wondering whether a current wave of mergers in the U.S. encryption business can be interpreted as a sign

HOW NIST AND NSA POOL THEIR EFFORTS 

Speaking before the U.S. Senate subcommittee for technology and space on Feb. 10, Raymond Kammer, the new director of the

NSA TAKES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 

Clinton Brooks, who had served up to now as special

CROWELL LANDS AT CYLINK CORP 

In contact with several companies in the computer field since he retired in September (IN 322/323), the former deputy director

AUTHORITIES FIND LOTUS "FLAW" 

The Swedish government has just discovered that the encryption software in the Lotus Notes (IBM) system includes a "flaw" that

PLUGGING HOLES IN INFORMATION SECURITY 

Unveiled on Nov. 5 after several months of sometimes story debate, the report that the President's Commission on Critical Infrastructure

WILLIAM CROWELL 

Less than two months after he retired as deputy director of the National Security Agency (NSA), William Crowell has been

ARMY UNDER NETSCAPE COLORS 

The U.S. armed forces have adopted Netscape for its communications.

GETTING AROUND EXPORT CURB 

Two companies, UK Web Ltd. and C2Net Software, Inc., have

PROTECTING SENSITIVE DOCUMENTS 

An Atlanta-based company specializing in encryption software for the Internet,

SECURING DATA ON THE INTERNET 

Hewlett-Packard claims to have developed an encryption framework for securing

DEEP INTELLIGENCE LINKS EXPOSED 

A book just published in New Zealand reveals fresh information about the workings of the so-called UKUSA signals intelligence network,

A "LOCKBOX" TO KEEP CODES 

The U S company Trusted Information Services (TIS) was one of the first to criticize the Clipper Chip when it

A CIA TRAITOR'S IMPACT 

The United States still hasn't told the British government exactly how much damage CIA traitor Aldrich Ames inflicted on British

EASING THE GLOBAL RULES 

New international rules and technical standards for cryptography that both the U.S. government and the majority of Western nations could

BT'S SECURITY HEADACHE 

British Telecom heads a consortium named Inca that is bidding for an estimated one billion pound contract to upgrade the

FBI AND IRS LOBBY TOGETHER 

American intelligence services are known to be strongly opposed to

NEW BOSS AT GCHQ 

David Omand, a 48-year-old leading official at Britain's Ministry of Defence (MoD), is strongly tipped to become the new head

SCRAMBLER FOR SENSITIVE MESSAGES 

Most users working in companies or government services who need to protect their messages don't do so because encryption software

A COMPUTER SPY UNMASKED 

For years Jean-Bernard Condat has undoubtedly been France's best-known computer hacker. Appearing on television talk shows, launching provocative operations and

BRITAIN'S ANSWER TO CLIPPER CHIP 

The British government has been secretly funding a project to develop a British "key escrow system" to enable GCHQ to

THE FEARLESS CODE BUSTERS 

Damien Doligez, a 27-year-old French research worker who took a job at the Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et

WILL NAUTILUS SCUPPER CLIPPER CHIP? 

Three American programmers, Bill Dorsey, Pat Mullarky and Paul Rubin, last month began using Internet to distribute the Beta version

BAD NEWS FOR GCHQ 

A committee looking into the capability, tasks and management structure at GCHQ Cheltenham at prime minister John Major's bidding is

SECRETS OF MENWITH HILL 

British defence secretary Malcolm Rifkind recently signed a so-called Public Interest Immunity certificate claiming that any "official disclosures" in court

LAYOFFS AT GCHQ 

At least 500 jobs will be eliminated at the GCHQ SIGINT base because of government belt-tightening. GCHQ bosses hope the

NSA GUARDING A CLOSED MARKET? 

Denials of export licences for American encryption technologies and denials of joint development with foreign firms may have inadvertently revealed

MORE WOES FOR CLIPPER CHIP 

The very company to first propose putting the public encryption Clipper Chip, with a government-approved "backdoor" in its products, AT&T,

DAILY ENCRYPTION "MARKET SURVEY" 

Earlier this month there were hearings at the Senate Subcommittee on Technology and Law, chaired by Senator Patrick Leahy, on

NSA MANUAL "AVAILABLE" 

A Northern California software designer opposed to the adoption of the Clipper Chip public encryption system (I.N. n. 237) has

CLIPPER MOVING IN OR OUT? 

A couple of weeks before the Clinton administration is scheduled to complete a classified review of the officially proposed Clipper

CIA OFFERS INSTEAD OF TAKES? 

In the recent first issue of the electronic journal The Internet Letter (e-mail netweekàaccess.digex.net), Paul Wallner, the CIA's coordinator of

CLIPPER CHIP'S POOR START 

On 16 April the White House Office of the Press Secretary announced the introduction of the "Clipper Chip" as "a

Acting on behalf of Campbell Christie, general secretary of the